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“I’m talking about his emotional attachment. There’s no way Mason can have sex with Belle and not get attached. That’s not fair to his future wife,” Thor claimed.
His words about Mason’s future wife hurt like a stab wound.
Celeste scoffed. “Trust me. It’s possible to have sex and not get attached. We French do it all the time. You don’t see Victor and me having a deep connection, do you?”
“You had sex with Victor?” Freya jerked her head back.
“Yes. I’d say it was the best sex of my life, but he’s got this stupid rule of never having sex with a woman more than once.”
“Because he’s afraid of getting attached,” Thor argued.
“Maybe.” Celeste scratched her collarbone. “So, I take that as a no. You’re not going to back up your claim and show me how great a lover you are, or should I say,think you are.”
“No, I’m not having sex with you.” Thor returned to piloting the drone and we were all quiet for a long moment, before I asked,
“You’re not going to confront Mason about it, are you?”
Thor kept his face turned forward when he answered, “He’s lucky I still have a few hours to calm down or I would have kicked his ass.”
“Good luck with that. It’s Mason we’re talking about. He’s a better fighter than any of us,” Aubri muttered.
“Yeah, well, that’s not going to help him when our fathers hear about this. Or when they learn that she might be pregnant with his child.”
CHAPTER 17
Violation
Mason
I got to the Gray Mansion first and was walking up the stairs to the grand entry when Thor came flying in.
Setting down the luggage that I was carrying inside the entrance, I instructed the mansion staff to take it to the right rooms before I walked back out to help unload Thor’s drone. Halfway there, I stopped in my tracks when Thor jumped out and stabbed his finger through the air at me.
“You fucking moron!”
My hand flew to my chest. “Are you talking to me?”
“Yes, I’m fucking talking to you.” He was walking fast toward me and the minute he was close enough he pushed both hands at my chest.
Making an “umph” sound from the air being pushed out of my lungs, I pushed him away from me. “What the hell is your problem?”
“You took a woman who barely survived being caught in an avalanche and then you violated her the same night.”
My jaw flexed and my gaze flew from him to Belle, who was exiting the drone with a stressed expression on her face.
“Don’t even look at her. You know what you did to her.”
Lowering my voice, I tried to calm him down. “I don’t want to discuss it here.”
“We all know! Your dirty secret is out.” Thor’s nostrils were flaring. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done?”
Freya, Aubri, and Celeste came closer with Belle keeping in the background.
“It’s none of your business,” I defended myself.
Thor snorted. “Did you think we would be okay with you touching an unmarried woman?”
“An unmarriedFrenchwoman,” my sister pointed out to defend me. “With her consent.”
